Word...speak

There are these moments,
where God breaks through,
and it feels like the sunshine after the storm,
we sit there, basking in it's glorious appearance

And then we move on...
Is it really in human nature to forget?
Even after we've looked ourselves in the mirror?
Maybe it is so...but I choose otherwise still

In the way God has been tutoring...
He seems to say, "Remember...until i tell you to forget"
not the other way round..."Forget...until I tell you to remember"
Simple words, BIG difference

Maybe, in just the simple act of turning it upside down,
we have also, gotten all of life turned topsy-turvy
And when it appears so, and stays so...
we begin to think it normal...when it's not

So when the light shines on you...what will you do?
Does it merely remind you of something...and then quickly move on?
Or does it illuminate the beauty around, so you can admire and remember?
Remember...not us or anything of us, but Him, and His wondrous creation

God, you brought tears to my eyes again this morning

It was just in this simple little post...

But i want to remember it...

because it is what i've been shaped for

http://booksbycslewis.blogspot.com/2012/03/divine-refining.html

3 quick paragraphs from within...

"Christianity is not the conclusion of a philosophical debate on the origins of the universe… It is not a system into which we have to fit the awkward fact of pain: it is itself one of the awkward facts which have to be fitted into any system we make. In a sense it creates rather than solves the problem of pain.”

"We are… a Divine work of art, something that God is making," Lewis writes, "and therefore something with which He will not be satisfied until a certain character." He says that God is, in love and through our pain, "trying to train us into something unlike our natural selves."

God is in the process of refining us. The question is whether we trust Him in this endeavor. Do we want a friend who confronts us about our dishonest behavior even if it jeopardized our happiness, or would we rather have that kind of friend who lets things go?

I know the type of friend that I want, 

And I believe that's the kind of friend that I've turned out to be too...

C.S Lewis wrote it beautifully...but the post didn't capture everything,

he deigned to ignore the pain and emotions that our loving friend, Jesus, experienced,

He who acts out of Love, feels as much pain as the one being Loved.

That was painfully shown by the ultimate act of Love on the cross... 

He took the pain first...just so we could see it clearly...even in our rebellion

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Love...far more than an emotion

Action deeper than words

Depth so gracefully consuming, it makes us tremble

Mercifully overwhelming relentless

Love